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                                  7216--A
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 12, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on  Codes  -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
   amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to  assaults  upon  passenger
   commuter ferry operators or crew

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 11 of section 120.05 of the penal law, as sepa-
 rately amended by chapters 268 and 281 of the laws of 2016,  is  amended
 to read as follows:
   11.  With  intent to cause physical injury to a train operator, ticket
 inspector, conductor, signalperson, bus operator, OPERATOR OR CREW OF  A
 PASSENGER  COMMUTER FERRY AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION (N) OF SECTION THREE
 HUNDRED OF THE TAX LAW,  station  agent,  station  cleaner  or  terminal
 cleaner  employed by any transit agency, authority or company, public or
 private, whose operation is authorized by New York state or any  of  its
 political   subdivisions,  a  city  marshal,  a  school  crossing  guard
 appointed pursuant to section two hundred eight-a of the general munici-
 pal law, a  traffic  enforcement  officer,  traffic  enforcement  agent,
 prosecutor  as  defined in subdivision thirty-one of section 1.20 of the
 criminal procedure law, sanitation  enforcement  agent,  New  York  city
 sanitation worker, public health sanitarian, New York city public health
 sanitarian,   registered  nurse,  licensed  practical  nurse,  emergency
 medical service paramedic, or emergency medical service  technician,  he
 or  she causes physical injury to such train operator, ticket inspector,
 conductor, signalperson, bus operator, station agent, station cleaner or
 terminal cleaner, city marshal, school crossing guard appointed pursuant
 to section two hundred eight-a of the  general  municipal  law,  traffic
 enforcement officer, traffic enforcement agent, prosecutor as defined in
 subdivision  thirty-one  of  section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law,
 registered nurse, licensed practical nurse,  public  health  sanitarian,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

                                                            LBD09713-03-9

 A. 7216--A                          2
 
 New  York  city  public health sanitarian, sanitation enforcement agent,
 New York city sanitation worker, emergency medical service paramedic, or
 emergency medical service technician, while such employee is  performing
 an assigned duty on, or directly related to, the operation of a train or
 bus,  including  the  cleaning of a train or bus station or terminal, or
 such city marshal, school crossing guard, traffic  enforcement  officer,
 traffic  enforcement agent, prosecutor as defined in subdivision thirty-
 one of section 1.20 of the criminal  procedure  law,  registered  nurse,
 licensed practical nurse, public health sanitarian, New York city public
 health  sanitarian,  sanitation enforcement agent, New York city sanita-
 tion worker, emergency medical service paramedic, or  emergency  medical
 service technician is performing an assigned duty; or
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.